European Consortium Commences Development of a Vehicle Sensors based System for Road Safety and Traffic Management.
June 1, 2005 (Press Release) --
The REACT project, Realizing Enhanced safety And effiCiency in European Road Transport, combines in an innovative approach several new technologies from different application areas. Starting with novel car sensors to continuously detect the state of the road and traffic environment, an intelligent on-board computer interprets this data, gives immediate recommendations to the driver and – most importantly – communicates them in a sophisticated manner to the traffic control centre. In this central server, the data from different vehicles together with other infrastructure based detection systems are computed to reconstruct and forecast the traffic and the environmental conditions. An additional decision unit elaborates coherent recommendations for both collective traffic control systems like dynamic speed signs and for individual vehicles, applying the novel bi-directional communication system.
Funded by the European Commission, the REACT project brings together leading companies in the areas of telematics, automotive engineering, traffic safety, traffic engineering and control, and also in driving assistance and automation. Led by Motorola Israel Ltd., a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions, European technology companies, research institutes, universities, consultancies and public road authorities are working together.
The consortium includes partners from Israel (Motorola and ARRTIC - a consultancy and management company), from Germany (TRANSVER - transport research and consultancy, the Technische Universität München and the South Bavarian Autobahn Authority), from France (Ecole des Mines de Paris, INRIA - the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control – and Intempora S.A. – a real-time embedded software development company), from the Netherlands (the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO) and from Spain (DMR Consulting).
Within a period of two years the project group aims to develop practical solutions which will be demonstrated in field tests in Paris and Munich. REACT will build on current experience from European research, in particular on the CORVETTE project, in which TRANSVER has developed new traffic control systems for the Bavarian Autobahn Authorities that will be included in the Munich field trails.
For additional information on REACT, please visit http://www.react-project.org/.
Funded by the European Commission, the REACT project brings together leading companies in the areas of telematics, automotive engineering, traffic safety, traffic engineering and control, and also in driving assistance and automation. Led by Motorola Israel Ltd., a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions, European technology companies, research institutes, universities, consultancies and public road authorities are working together.
The consortium includes partners from Israel (Motorola and ARRTIC - a consultancy and management company), from Germany (TRANSVER - transport research and consultancy, the Technische Universität München and the South Bavarian Autobahn Authority), from France (Ecole des Mines de Paris, INRIA - the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control – and Intempora S.A. – a real-time embedded software development company), from the Netherlands (the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO) and from Spain (DMR Consulting).
Within a period of two years the project group aims to develop practical solutions which will be demonstrated in field tests in Paris and Munich. REACT will build on current experience from European research, in particular on the CORVETTE project, in which TRANSVER has developed new traffic control systems for the Bavarian Autobahn Authorities that will be included in the Munich field trails.
For additional information on REACT, please visit http://www.react-project.org/.
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